Hinges

The obvious requirement of a hinge is to attach a door or window to a frame. What is often over-looked is that a hinge must carry the weight of the door without sagging. Hinges are often under-specified due to lack of understanding or to save money and people just accept that doors are supposed to sag, or bind or drag. Hinges should allow the door to swing easily and with minimum friction and hinges should withstand the forces exerted on it and through it by door closers. Furthermore, hinges ought to perform to these requirements for a long period of time, which also offers better value for money.

Brass and Plated Hinges

This hinges section features our contract and our best quality hinges. Within each is a varied selection of hinges such as parliament and projection hinges, which come in a number of different finishes such as chrome, nickel and brass.

Concealed - Invisible Hinges

These hinges are totally concealed, invisible', except for when the door is open. Several patterns are available, often referred to by their trade name soss.

Continuous Hinges

These hinges are used on traditional cabinet work and pianos. Recently, continuous built to a heavier specification, have become more widely used on full size doors, particularly in areas subject to vandalism. Heavy-duty continuous hinges can be full mortise or half mortise to suit the door and frame details.

Cupboard & Cabinet Hinges

Within our cupboard and cabinet hinge section we have an eclectic array such as, back flap, card table, centre and flush hinges. We have overlay, half overlay and inset hinges ideal for kitchen cabinets.

Hinges for Windows

Our Hinges for windows section is mainly comprised of mechanisms that restrict the initial window opening to 100mm. They comply with BS8213 Part 1: 1991 Code of Practise for Safety in use and in Cleaning. The hinges themselves are designed so as to appear unobtrusive.

The mechanism requires a certain level of strength and dexterity to operate and two hands are required to co-ordinate the opening, thus giving added protection. The entire restrictor mechanism is integral to the hinge, which eliminates the need for a separate restrictor.

In addition to these restrictor friction hinges, we also have for sale storm proof hinges and small stainless steel hinges which are small enough to use with window frames.

Spring Hinges

These types of hinges incorporate a spring action within the pivot knuckle. The size of the knuckle is usually about twice the size of a standard hinge, so as to allow a spring to be built in. A single spring hinge is sprung to allow a one-way closing, they are relatively simple to fit and cheaper than conventional door closers. However, please only us where conditions warrant such a hinge being used.

Double action spring hinges are ideal for busy commercial use. A good example of this is swinging kitchen doors as this type of hinge will close the door from both sides. Put simply, they are made up of two butt hinges but the knuckle is replaced by a powerful wound spring unit

Stainless Steel Hinges

This section is solely made up of Stainless Steel hinges of many varieties including rising butts and ball bearing hinges. Stainless steel hinges tend to have a good strong load capacity, durable in most weather conditions and are aesthetically pleasing. Due to their ball bearing design they are also very smooth.

Various Miscellaneous Hinges

This section is comprised of all the other hinges that dont fall under our other hinge categories.